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Some Rise By Sin by Philip Caputo (Crime/Suspense Novel, 2017). This engrossing, if grim contemporary novel is set in and around an isolated desert village in the foothills of Mexico’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. Like so much of the country, San Patricio is being torn apart by a brutal drug war of a savagery on a scale that dwarfs even the […]

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston. (Nonfiction Book, 2016). A best-selling author of both fiction and nonfiction, his latest is the gripping true story of the quest to locate a long-rumored abandoned city in a remote (and in modern times previously unexplored) region in the most mountainous rain forest interior of Honduras. […]